Sam Raffield reports: VSU has new software that traces student use of illegal downloading systems to individual computers. Over this past summer, “Ares,” a new P2P program/protocol became popular among college students. Ares allows its users to evade school network controls that limit P2P use. The University System of Georgia increased efforts to identify the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Big Brother’s fingers reach deep into college files
Jeffrey Piccola reports: …. The potential for identity theft, discrimination and other misuse in the wake of one lost laptop or one unwitting employee error is mind-boggling. It also is why the Senate Education Committee and leaders in the higher education community have called upon the state Department of Education to suspend its latest student data…
TX: KISD erred in providing private phone numbers
Tracy Dang reports: Katy Independent School District said it made an “unintended mistake” in releasing some phone numbers that were intended to be private when it released a list requested in late April as a response to a Public Information Request. The list became an issue when Team Katy PAC had used it to make…
Plan to tag new babies causes outcry
Laure Belot reports: A French company, Lyberta, has just dropped plans to fit children in several nurseries in Paris with electronic tags, after a newspaper revealed the scheme. Trade unions, councils and civil liberties groups were indignant at the invasion of privacy. But the response to the idea in online forums was much more divided:…